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Escaping the energy poverty trap :when and how governments power the lives of…
The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262349291
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- 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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Planetary improvement :cleantech entrepreneurship and the contradictions of g…
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that ""green capitalism"" is more capitalist than green.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346139
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A father :puzzle
The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father. "When I was born, my father was already no longer there." Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his pres…
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- 9780262351126
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- 1 online resource (104 pages).
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The deep learning revolution
How deep learning-from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants-is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy. The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning netwo…
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- 9780262346825
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Inside and Outside Liquidity
In this volume, leading economists Bengt Holmstr?om and Jean Tirole develop a theory explaining the demand for a supply of liquid assets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295536
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- 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) :illustrations
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What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanism…
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- 9780262356299
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New Methuselahs :the ethics of life extension
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347228
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- 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages)
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Spontaneous Venturing: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering i…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions—the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This ap…
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Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
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- 9780262314787
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Fables and futures :biotechnology, disability, and the stories we tell ourselves
How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong. From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262351799
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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